KKYK-CD


KKYK-CD is a low-power, Class A television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned by KTV Media, KKYK-CD maintains studios on Shackelford Drive in the Beverly Hills section of Little Rock, and its transmitter is located on Shinall Mountain, near the city's Chenal Valley neighborhood.

History

The station first signed on the air on May 15, 1995 as K58FA; its calls were changed to KKRK-LP in 1997. In 1999, the station was acquired by the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which was based in Little Rock, and changed its call letters to KLRA-LP.
The station became an affiliate of Spanish language in [the United States|Spanish-language] network Univision in 2001. On May 8, 2004, Equity began simulcasting the station's programming on sister station KUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma as well as its three translators and KCHM-LP in Oklahoma City; KUOK-CA in Norman; and KOKT-LP, forming a regional mini-network known as Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma. Local commercials from the Little Rock area that were inserted by that station during national commercial breaks and KLRA-LP's station identification bumpers were broadcast through this simulcast to Oklahoma viewers. In March 2005, the simulcast between KLRA-LP and KUOK was discontinued, with both stations – which continued to be programmed via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock – relaying Univision programming through separate feeds with KUOK carrying advertising for businesses within the Oklahoma City market and separate station promotions. KLRA-LP rebranded as Univision Arkansas shortly afterward.
After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KLRA was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009, with Pinnacle assuming control of the station under a local marketing agreement on August 5. In 2013, the station changed its call letters to KKYK-CD ; in addition to swapping call letters, the station also swapped affiliations with KKYK-CD, which adopted the KLRA-CD calls and became the market's Univision affiliate; the new KKYK-CD moved to UHF channel 30 and became an affiliate of Soul of [the South Television]. The station's low-power translator stations in northwestern Arkansas: KWNL-CD in Winslow and KXUN-LD in Fort Smith, became translators of KLRA-CD.
In 2017, the station became an affiliate of Vibrant TV. In 2020, the station dropped Vibrant TV and replaced it with the Spanish network Telemundo.

Newscasts

Until 2008, KLRA-LP had produced a daily half-hour Spanish-language regional newscast Noticias Univision Arkansas, which aired Monday through Friday evenings at 5 and 10 p.m.; the program was produced out of Equity Broadcasting's headquarters in Little Rock as one of what would become six Univision-affiliated stations owned by Equity whose newscasts were hubbed from the facility, although each station maintained their own locally based reporters.
The newscasts were also simulcast on now-former sister station KUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma and its translators after the stations became the Univision affiliate for the Oklahoma City television market in May 2004; as a result, the newscasts were retitled Noticias Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma in 2005. The following year, Equity Broadcasting began producing separate regional Spanish-language newscasts for KUOK and Tulsa Univision affiliate KUTU-CA. As a result of corporate cutbacks due to the company's financial issues, Equity discontinued the newscasts it produced for all six of its Univision affiliates on June 6, 2008.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
30.11080i16:9KKYK-CDTelemundo
30.2480i16:9TeleXTeleXitos
30.3480i16:9MoviesMovieSphere Gold
30.4480i16:9BUZZBuzzr
30.5480i16:9BingeBinge TV
30.6480i16:9OANOne America Plus
30.7480i16:9N2Newsmax2
30.8480i16:9JTV_SPJewelry Television